Improvement in weather-strips



S. A. PIPER.

Weather-Strips.,

N0.\53,909 Pate-nted Aug."11,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. PIPER, OF NEWTON UPPER FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,909, dated August11, 1874 application tiled July l5, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. PIPER, of Newton Upper Falls, of thecounty of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Weather-Guards for Doors; and do hereby declarethe same to be fully described in the following specification andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis avertical section of the lower part of a door provided with my improve-dweather-guard. Figs. 2 and 3 are opposite side views, and Fig. 4 is' anend view, of the guard. Fig. 5 is a front view, Fig. 6 a rear view, Fig.7 a side view, and Fig. 8 a vertical section, of the front-end supporterof said guard. Fig. 9 is a rear view, and Fig. l0 a vertical section, ofits rear supporter.

The door A is chambered at the bottom to receive the guard B, whichconsists of a metallic bar, a, provided with two triangular projections,b c, extending upward from it at its opposite ends, as shown. In each ofthe said projections there are two inclined grooves, d d, which aredisposed opposite each other, and, in other respects, as represented.From the upper corners of the front projection there is an extension orspring supporter, e, formed as shown. The guard is grooved from itslower edge upward, to carry a strip,

f, of vulcanized india-rubber, all being as represented. The frontsupporter O of the guard is provided with a socket, g, to receive oneend of a spring, E, whose other end rests against and is entered by thepart e hereinbefore referred to. Furthermore, the supporter C straddlesthe grooved part c of the guard, and is provided with two inclinedtongues, lzl h, to enter the grooves d d of the part within it. The saidsupporter G is also slotted vertically to receive screws t' i thatfasten a plate, F, to the door. Other screws, k, for fastening thesupporter to said plate F, go through vertical slots s s in the saidplate, such admitting ofthe supporter O with the guard being adjustedvertically as the elastic shoe f may require for its proper arrangementfrom time to time with the threshold of the door-frame.

The rear supporter D of the guard straddles the guard and is furnishedwith in clined tongues h h to enter the next adjacent grooves d d, and,like the front supporter, has applied to it a holding-plate, G, which issecured to it and the door by screws, which go through vertical slots inthe holding-plate and supporter, the whole being so as to enable thesupporter to be adjusted vertically as occasion may require.

`This weatherguard, in some respects, is analogous to that recentlypatented by me, in which the guard was composed of a bar provided withstandards and inclined arms extended from such standards, and throughscrews going upward to the door. This latter guard to be adjustedvertically had first to be removed from the door, in order to gainaccess to the guide-screws, every adjustment being limited to one ormore complete revolutions of each of such screws. With my presentinvention not only can the adjustment be effected without necessity ofremoving the guard from the door, but it can be accomplished in aneasier or better manner and with all requisite precision.

When the door is open the guard will project a short distance beyondthat edge of it which is next its hinges, the rearward movement of theguard being stopped by the front projection bringing up against the partl of the recess in the door. While the door may be in the act of beingclosed the guard will be driven forward by being forced against thedoor-frame or a back-stop, m, therein, and

while so moving such guard, by its grooves d d and the tongues h h, willbe forced downward toward the threshold.

I claim- 1. The guard composed of the bar a and b c, grooves el d, andspring-supporter e, ardescribed, with the guard B and its support rangedas described, iu combination with the ers C D, arranged and appliedtogether and supporters OD, arranged to straddle the guard to the door,substantially as specified.

and provided with the tongues 7L and the sprng- SAM UEL A. PIPER. socketg, al1 being as set forth. Witnesses:

4. The combination of' the slotted support- R. H. EDDY,

plates F G, provided with clamp-screws, as S. N. PIPER.

